Dawit Elias

Dawit Elias

Product Design Leader in Los Angeles

About

With over 9 years in product design, I’m passionate about craft—from the smallest details like motion and well-thought-out design systems that empower teams to pioneering new design paradigms where best practices don’t yet exist. I believe that the right balance of detail, exploration, and user insight transforms how people engage with technology.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Remote

Property Intelligence 👇🏾

Lead designer for Property Intelligence, a suite of AI-powered features aimed at enhancing property analysis and management. Since its launch in Feb 2024, 3D models with Property Intelligence have received over 30 million views.

Mobile & Hardware 👇🏾

Lead designer for Matterport’s iOS and Android apps which allow users to turn any physical space into a dimensionally accurate 3D model. Previously lead and established Matterport’s design system, Supernova.

Design Systems 👇🏾

Led and established Matterport’s design system, Supernova.

2020 — 2021
Remote

Led design for Android and iOS apps that help teams improve field coordination and operational efficiency in industries like utilities, government, public safety, transportation and more.

2016 — 2020
2016 — 2016
UX Designer / Web Developer at Pavilion Gift Company
Bergen, NY

Redesigned e-commerce site, paviliongift.com. The new site aimed to improve shopping cart abandonment, sign up flow, and product discoverability by collaborating with marketing and back end development to institute a user-centered design approach.

Projects

Ongoing

Designing and building bfdesign.co, a collective of diverse designers, problem solvers, and creative thinkers aimed at providing end-to-end creative solutions and design with purpose.

Speaking

2024
Guest Lecturer
Claremont Graduate University

Lectured a module about information architecture and high fidelity prototyping for CGU's Design for Good Innovator course and conducted design critiques of students' projects.

2018
Palm Springs, California

My colleague, Nick Black, and I gave a talk to a room full of GIS developers at Esri's 2018 Developer Summit conference. The goal was to give them some insight into our design process on the Apps team (design methods, how we collaborate, tools used, etc).

Education

2011 — 2015
BS, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York

Certifications

2016

An online non-credit course authorized by University of California San Diego and offered through Coursera.

Credential ID: LHRKVEQVNTKZ

2016

An online non-credit course authorized by University of California San Diego and offered through Coursera.

Credential ID: H86MH5G65BMK

Contact

GitHub